Scattered

Scattered, a top-five Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the 2025 Bread & Roses Award, is Aamna Mohdin’s powerful exploration of displacement, family, and homecoming. When Mohdin traveled to Calais to report on the refugee crisis, she was confronted by a reality she had been outrunning for two decades: that she had been a child refugee herself. Determined to piece together her scattered family history, she embarked on a journey spanning continents—from the rooftops of Mogadishu to a reunion with a long-lost friend in Amsterdam and the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Written by a young woman uniquely positioned to explore the refugee experience, Scattered examines the aftershocks of displacement while celebrating family, love, and resilience. Praised as “brave, powerful, and deeply necessary” by Afua Hirsch and lauded by critics including the Guardian, Financial Times, and Gary Younge, the book amplifies a voice rarely heard in conversations about refugees.